Taurus Millennium Pro PT140 Pistol Review

Needing
an addition to my carry arsenal, and not wanting to spend an arm and
leg the Taurus Millennium Pro PT140 .40 S&W appeared to be my
answer. So, off I went to Academy Sports to see what they had
available.

There
in the case sat a Taurus PT140 Pro and a PT111 Pro in .9mm. I settled
on the PT140 with 10 round mags, and purchased the new gun for a paltry
$319.95 + tax. The gun was black and sported a set of windage
adjustable Heine Straight Eight sights.

I took the gun home,
cleaned it, and took it out to the Old Fort Gun Club. I stapled up some
full size silhouette targets and loaded up. I started out shooting with
heavy gloves on and it was evident right away the gloves would have to
go.

I was shooting a foot low from 30 feet. Off came the gloves
and up came the shots. The Taurus Millennium PRO is too small for
shooting with warm gloves on my average size hands. A slight right
adjustment on the drift-adjustable Heine sights and I was on target. And
the more I shot, the better it got.

After abound a hundred
rounds, I was having too much fun to stop. I emptied a half box of
around 400 reloaded bullets, and finally just had to stop to go home.
Since then, I've put another 150 rounds of Speer Lawman 180 grain flat
points through the Taurus PT140 Pro.

The Taurus Millennium PRO PT140
fits my average size hands pretty nicely though I think a little bulk in
the form of a slip-on Hogue grip might help it a bit. The gun points
naturally and comes on target easily with a little practice. It lends
itself well to either sight or point shooting according to distance and
speed of shooting.

For
my initial range time, I was able to put all 10 rounds of the pistol in
the head or center mass of a silhouette target with relatively fast
firing, from out to about 40 feet.

The
Taurus Millennium PRO makes for a dependable, reasonably accurate,
easily carried pistol that holds 10 rounds of ammo (for the .40, 12 for
the .9mm), sufficient for most any civilian emergency encounter.

The
difference in price between it and a similar size GLOCK is $250 less
for the Taurus Millennium Pro. It shouldn't take too much brain power
to figure the best deal. And please don't write to tell me the GLOCK
will perform better. Remember, I'm a GLOCK lover.

But I also try
to be responsible with how I spend my money and I have pretty extensive
experience with Taurus handguns. The TMP was the way to go for this
small carry pistol. Add to all that, the flip up external safety,
allowing me to more safely handle the gun when it has to be removed to
go in someplace where carry is not legal, and it seals the deal.

These guns can have a significant place in the world of concealed carry.

This
Taurus Millennium Pro performed as most Taurus handguns that I have
owned, flawlessly. At this point, it takes a lot of ignorance to issue
blanket criticism of Taurus firearms. Taurus has not only proven that it
can put it's guns up against any combat handguns, they have also led
the way in innovation in features like the "second shot" capability with
their striker fired pistols.

Sure it's possible for Taurus to
have quality control issues or bugs in newly manufactured guns, but it's
also possible for S&W, Beretta, Sig Sauer, H&K, and others. The
difference is, that when Taurus has a gun with bugs, people throw a
blanket of sarcasm over the whole company instead of just the gun in
question. Bad move. "Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater" applies here.

I
read a frantic complaint on a firearms forum recently about a Taurus
Millennium Pro that he purchased and "straight out of the box" he had
problems with it. I wonder why..........actually I don't. I know why.
Here is how they come packed "in the box".

No
gun will perform with that amount of grease gumming up the action.
Before you go to the range with any gun, take a deep breath, go home,
take it out of the box and clean and lightly oil it before taking it to
the range. That will solve most "out of the box problems".

Anyway, mine is great and on the road to being consistent performers like all the Tauruses I've owned.

BOTTOM
LINE: People who want to bash these guns without sufficient experience
with them to do so, are showing ignorance that I wouldn't want thrown
around. Over the last four years I have owned seven Taurus handguns,
including this one, all but one, flawless performers.

Dependable,
durable, accurate and innovative. It's time to give credit where credit
is due to a firearms manufacturer that is producing quality guns on the
cutting edge of innovation in the handgun industry.